When posie rings first appeared in the 14th century, the inscriptions were normally in Norman French and were rung around their outsides. By the 16th century, though, the inscriptions scurried inside posie rings’ bands and were often expressed in English.

As time danced on into the 17th century, posie rings were also used to express friendship, but in the 18th century, these rings waltzed out of fashion, as friends and lovers found other ways to express their sweet sentiments.